Barnes & Noble has hired Michael P. Huseby as chief financial officer, and he will start work tomorrow. As for the ongoing realignment of the company’s businesses, they say Huseby will “lead the company’s finance organization, aligning the company’s finance and business strategies, optimizing the company’s capital structure and helping to scale the rapidly growing digital business.” From 2004 to 2011 was evp and cfo at Cablevision, and prior to that he was evp and cfo at another cable operator, Charter Communications. Alan Lindstrom has been acting cfo for the past five months. Paula Munier has joined Talcott Notch Literary […]
Awards
Pearlman, Jasanoff Among NBCC Award Winners
The National Book Critics Circle Awards went to: Binocular Vision, by Edith Pearlman (Fiction) Liberty’s Exiles, by Maya Jasanoff (General Nonfiction) George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (Biography) The Memory Place, by Mira Bartok (Autobiography) Space, in Chains, by Laura Kasischke (Poetry) Otherwise Known As The Human Condition, by Geoff Dyer (Criticism) Release
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Michael Taeckens will join Graywolf Press as marketing director, effective April 16. He spent the past eleven years at Algonquin, most recently as online and paperback marketing director. Casey Ebro has joined McGraw-Hill Professional as editor. She was previously an editor at Arcade Publishing. In France, Gregory Messina has joined the Place des Editeurs group as rights director, reporting to Anne-Laure Aymeric. He will sell rights for Belfond, Presses de la Cité, Hors Collection, Le Pré aux Clercs and Omnibus. Previously, he sold rights at Editions Robert Laffont. At Chronicle, Jeff Wiebe has been promoted to associate director of operations. The 2011 […]
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Julia Haav has joined Yale University Press as publicist. She was previously publicist in the New York offices of Europa Editions. At Chronicle Books, Emily Haynes has been promoted to senior editor, entertainment. Andrea Au Levitt has joined Reader’s Digest as a senior editor, acquiring and developing health and food books. She was projects director, Prevention Books at Rodale. Lara Hancock will move to Simon & Schuster UK Children’s as editorial director for picture books and novelty in early May. She is currently publishing director for picture books and gift at Egmont UK. The PEN American Center has elected Peter […]
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Kobo has hired Phil Wood for the new position of country manager, UK. Wood was at TomKat Consulting, serving the consumer technology, electronics and IT sectors, prior to which he director of Interead, which attracted attention for its inexpensive COOL-ER ereaders (before going out of business). Kobo general manager Matt Welch says in the announcement, “Having someone with Wood’s technology, commercial and eReading expertise positions us well for our planned growth in the UK. We have seen tremendous first six months here and with Phil as country manager I am confident we’ll see Kobo continuing to drive forward the ereading revolution.” […]
Indies Choice Nominees Named
The ABA has announced the finalists for their annual Indies Choice awards, with the winners to be named April 5. Fiction The Cat’s Table, by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf) Everything Beautiful Began After, by Simon Van Booy (Harper Perennial) 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel (Trans.) (Knopf) The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA) Wingshooters, by Nina Revoyr (Akashic Books) Nonfiction Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House) Blue Nights, by Joan Didion (Knopf) Catherine the Great: Portrait […]